Recipe - Peppernuts (Pfeffernussen)

1 cup Brown sugar
One half cup White sugar
One half cup Shortening
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Raisins
One half cup Coconut
One half cup Nuts
4 One half cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One half cup Sour cream or buttermilk

Cream the white and brown sugar with the shortening. Beat in the eggs and
vanilla.

Combine the raisins, coconut, and nuts, grind fine in a food processor or
grinder. Add to the above.

Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together; add these, along with the
buttermilk, to the above.

Divide the dough into several parts; roll each part into a long, inch thick
snakelike shape; cut the snake at approximately half inch intervals.
Arrange the nutlike cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet; bake at 325
degrees for 10 12 minutes, depending on whether you prefer softer or
crunchy cookies.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini